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Plat 22b (one-fourth acre), 15 Jack Pine, 20 Scotch Pine, and 23 White Spruce, 58; - 
plat 27, 50 Jack Pine, 51 Scotch Pine, 4 Rock Pine, 36 White Spruce, and 13 Douglas 
Spruce, 154; plat 28, 40 Jack Pine, 28 Scotch Pine, 1 Rock Pine, 40 White Spruce, 
and 12 Douglas Spruce, 121; plat 29, 62 Jack Pine, 65 Scotch Pine, 2 Rock Pine, 95 
White Spruce, and 53 Douglas Spruce, 277; plat 30, 1 Rock Pine and 8 Douglas 
Spruce, 9. Totals in plats 26) to 30 (24 acres), 167 Jack Pine; 164 Scotch Pine; 8 
Rock Pine; 194 White Spruce; 86 Douglas Spruce; grand total, June, 1897, 619. 
To these figures must be added 99 Scotch Pines underplanted previ- 
ous to 1896, making a total of 1,201 conifers on 63 acres, or an average 
of 185 per acre. Or, leaving out plats 18, 20, and 30, which together 
have but 19 conifers, there having been very few blanks in these plats 
when the conifers were set, the 5 acres remaining average 236 conifer 
trees per acre, a number sufficient to make quite a change in character 
- from the original hard-wood planting. A note accompanies the report 
to the effect that the trees are growing nicely, some of the pines having 
made a growth of 1 foot thus far this season (June 15, 1897). 
No report of this underplanting was made in the fall of 1897, but a 
hasty examination made by the writer after a snowstorm in early 
December showed that the small conifers gave every promise of success. 
PLAT PLANTING. 
Two series of plats of one-sixteenth acre were designed to illustrate 
the effects of close and wide spacing, and the trees were set at distances 
as follows: 1 by 1 foot, 1 by 2 feet, 2 by 2 feet, 2 by 3 feet, 2 by 4 feet, 
3 by 3 feet, 3 by 4 feet, 3 by 5 feet, 3 by 6 feet, 4 by 4 feet, 4 by 5 feet, 
4 by 6 feet, 5 by 5 feet, 5 by 6 feet, 6 by 6 feet. One series was 
arranged as a wind mantle, to be placed in the border of the planta- 
tion, but through an unfortunate misunderstanding its location was 
changed, and hence the purpose of the design is defeated. In this 
series conifers are arranged in continuous rows, and the spaces are 
filled in with Artemisia, as indicated in the accompanying diagram. 
Wind mantle plat, 3 by 3 feet. 
DaaDaaPaaBaaPaaBaa D 2a 2 2 S02 ae 
DaaDaaPaaBaaPaa BaaDdDaas 245 2323 
DaaDaaPaabBaaPaaB aa Daa 2.4.9 23 beeee 
DaaDaaPaaBaahP aca BaaDaas 22 oa a0 
DaaDaaPaaBbBaaPaaBbBaa Daas aan 42) 
DaaDaaPaaBaaPaa Baa Daas 2.453 200 
DaaDaaPaaBaaP aa Baa Daa 8 2 aorta 
DaaDaaPaaBaaPaaBaaDaasSsaansaa) ae 
a—Artemisia. 
D—Douglas Spruce or Red Cedar. 
P—Rock Pine. 
B—Jack Pine. 
S—Scotch Pine. 
